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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX law... by layer8 on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:49PM (#34372964)
The article says “single number”, not “single line of code”.
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX law... by pigtailgirl on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:53PM (#34373011)
-- ""Mr. Wang created this back door by inserting a single number into millions of lines of code for the exchange, creating a line of credit from FTX to Alameda, to which customers did not consent," - guessing it was probably a flag? --
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX law... by jbverschoor on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:59PM (#34373089)
It could be a simple boolean check, right?

If superuser? ->

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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX law... by ogzk on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:01PM (#34373115)
It was obviously 0.0072973525693
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX law... by binkHN on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:55PM (#34373760)
We all know the number was 42.
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX law... by erulabs on Friday January 13, 2023 @07:24PM (#34375845)
Probably an array of primary key id INTs which are allowed to bypass some check function. Add Alamedas account ID, gg.
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